NY Times Says No to War Re: Fwd: Edward Said on who is in charge of policy

[R]

At 07:46 PM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>><http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/628/op2.htm>
>>Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo) - March 8, 2993
>>Who is in charge?
>>A tiny, unelected group, supported by powerful, unrepresentative 
>>minorities, writes Edward Said
>>Edward Said
><snip>
>>There are no antiwar voices to read or hear in any of the major medias of 
>>this country, no Arabs or Muslims (who have been consigned en masse to 
>>the ranks of the fanatics and terrorists of this world), no critics of 
>>Israel, not on Public Broadcasting, not in The New York Times, the New 
>>Yorker, US News and World Report, CNN and the rest.
>
>Professor Said exaggerates.
>
>*****   New York Times Editorial
>March 9, 2003
>
>Saying No to War
>
>Within days, barring a diplomatic breakthrough, President Bush will decide 
>whether to send American troops into Iraq in the face of United Nations 
>opposition. We believe there is a better option involving long-running, 
>stepped-up weapons inspections. But like everyone else in America, we feel 
>the window closing. If it comes down to a question of yes or no to 
>invasion without broad international support, our answer is no....
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/opinion/09SUN1.html>   *****
>
>Is this the first time that the New York Times editorialized against a US 
>war before it started?
>--
>Yoshie

i don't mean to be a wet blanket, yoshie, but it's already started.

R


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